An Energy Efficient Routing Approach based on AODV

An Ad-hoc Network is a self organizing and self configuring wireless network. It is a temporary network established without the aid of stand-alone infrastructure. The topology of an ad-hoc network changes dynamically. The topology changes due to departure or arrival of a node. The nodes in mobile ad-hoc network acts as host as well as routers that routes the packets to the destination node. The mobile adhoc network is established for a single session and it does not require router of a base station. In this research three routing protocols have been studied and compared with each other on various performance factors. The protocols that have to be examined are Dynamic Source Routing (DSR), Ad-hoc On Demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV). The main concentration is laid on the energy consumed by the nodes during the transfer of data. The energy is the main issue of concern in ad-hoc networks so after examining the energy consumed by the above stated protocols, a new approach is proposed which uses a load balancing technique which is based on AODV protocol. The approach uses a load balancing technique that saves energy and follows best optimal path to route the data and maintains the lifetime for a node. Keywords— AODV, DSR, DSDV, Mobile Ad-hoc Network, load balancing.